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Kronos Quartet

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Thirty-Five Years, Then This: Common Ground at YBCA

Thirty-Five Years, Then This: Common Ground at YBCA

Big name/legendary collaborations are usually a letdown. Two “titans” get in a room together and suddenly everyone’s so fucking precious about their legacy that nothing actually happens, just a lot of careful posturing and committe meeting compromise dressed up in press release language about “exciting new directions” and “boundary-pushing work.” But thirty-five years? Thirty-five years […]

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Backstage Pass: Common Ground

Backstage Pass: Common Ground

I don’t belong here. That’s the first thing I need to understand. This isn’t my world. These aren’t my people. I’m a tourist with a golden ticket, a voyeur granted temporary access to a place most people never see, never even know exists. And I should be grateful for it. It’s three hours before curtain […]

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When Rigor Meets Rigor: Alonzo King, David Harrington, and Art That Demands Something Back

This city used to be where you could fuck around and find out. Not in some precious way, but in the way that actually meant something, where a choreographer could look at a quartet that’s been demolishing the boundaries of what four strings can do for decades and say, “Yeah, let’s see what happens when […]

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Alonzo King, David Harrington, LINES BAllet, Kronos Quartet, San Francisco art collaboration

The sacred sense of beyond

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The sacred sense of beyond
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